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recover admin account in edirectory
Name: yang11 Date: July 14, 2003 at 04:33:50 Pacific OS: edirectory 8.7 CPU/Ram: P4-2.4/512Mb
Comment:
Hey there, I played with edirectory8.7/GW6.5 betas for win-platform. I somehow deleted admin account/object. now I cannot uninstall edir. How can I recover admin account? Many thanks in advance.
Name: Mark Pilkanis Date: July 15, 2003 at 14:42:01 Pacific
Reply:
To my knowledge, once you have deleted a user account, it is history. You may be able to uninstall edir by using nwconfig.nlm.
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Response Number 2
Name: degoeroe Date: July 21, 2003 at 07:12:38 Pacific
Reply:
Aloha,
Once you have deleted the admin account one of the options is to use ADMINADD.NLM this nlm can create supervisor (admin) accounts in the root of your tree by entering the following line on your server console:
load adminadd.nlm admin admin2
in the above stated example 'admin' is the username and 'admin2' is the password of the account. Interested in the adminadd.nlm send me and email.
Summary: Sounds like a case of outsourcing gone bad. Are you using the correct admin account to log in to your server? You may have to reconfigure the admin account in order to have the proper trustee assign...